It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending April 9th., 2024

Episode 186 Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane! It’s... your insurance company!?!? This week we have stats and stories that will leave you gasping, and that’s good because you’ll have a chance to catch your breath during our spring break over the next couple weeks. We start this update up there, in the sky, and the novel new way insurance companies are finding to lower risk and increase profits. From there we move on to a US privacy bill that we never thought we would see get as far as it has, and just how many people are potentially lining up to stop it.​It’s not 007, but SS7 and it involves spies and use by adversaries for so long that the Federal Communications Commission is calling for accountability.There’s a ransomware attack that hasn’t hit healthcare but a coffee loyalty program that has raised the profile of ransomware to new heights.From a Canadian listener an update on Microsoft’s Security Chickens.And finally the most amazing, incredible, unbelievable identity theft story we have ever heard.They removed the last public phone box in Metropolis in 2022, so there’s no chance to change, but that’s fine because by the time we get to the end of this week’s update we’ll only need one identity and it will be secure. Find the full transcript to this week's podcast here.